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Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
Writer
Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
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Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.
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Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.
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I'm not real big on repentence ... I like revenge better.
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No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.
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Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.
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So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box.
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I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.
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He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.
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Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.
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One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters.
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When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.
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Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.
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I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun it was too hard to do both.
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When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.
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Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?
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If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.
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Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.
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I`m not a morning person.
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I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print
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Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will spread his grief all over us, not because we failed, but because it'll give him something to focus on so he doesn't have to feel the pain.
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